Malinke

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Malinke

Malinke Language

Malinke (also called Maninkakan Western, Maninka-Western, Malinka) is a Manding language belonging to the Niger-Congo language family. It is spoken in Eastern Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, and Mali. There are approximately 500,000 Malinke speakers total.

Malinke has a 59% lexical similarity to Mandinka.

Malinke is written in an Arabic script. From 1997 to 2003, portions of the Christian Bible were translated into Malinke.

Malinke Translation and Interpreting

Baystate provides services in Malinke translation and interpretation in all media. To obtain a free quote for an upcoming Malinke project, please click here.